Merge Now is a weekly series of conversations about the most important topics in mobility technology, with the people shaping the future of transportation. Hosted by Ed Niedermeyer, Senior Editor for Mobility Technology at The Drive and co-host of The Autonocast, Merge Now takes you beyond the headlines and deep into the important and thorny issues that will change the world and how you move through it.

Would you be surprised to learn that a number of autonomous
vehicle development programs offload data from their test vehicles
by physically pulling out a hard drive and shipping it by snail
mail to a cloud services provider? When Jason Stinson, the
co-founder of the AV ecosystem company Renovo, told me this was
common...

As The Drive's recent reporting on the struggles
of the French autonomous low-speed shuttle company Navya
demonstrate, building a business around autonomous drive technology
in the short term is tough. Growing without overextending,
deploying while continuing to develop and weighing cost pressure
against sufficient...

I was covering the traditional auto industry when I first met
Mike Granoff of Maniv Mobility, and looking back I realize that he
was the person who introduced me to the way of thinking about cars
and mobility that has grown into my obsession with "mobility
technology." At the time Mike was working on one of the...

In 2007, Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing team won the DARPA
urban challenge and kicked off the push for autonomous vehicles
that now has real cars driving on real roads and will soon birth
real businesses. Bryan Salesky was a key contributor to Tartan's
victory, and he has taken the expertise he gained there to...

The most exciting new mobility technologies are most typically
being used to make vehicles safer and more efficient, but why
aren't more being used to take the enjoyment of enthusiast driving
to new levels? At the new electric motorcycle startup ARC Vehicles,
that's exactly what's happening. On this week's Merge...

About the Podcast

Merge Now is a weekly series of conversations about the most important topics in mobility technology, with the people shaping the future of transportation. Hosted by Ed Niedermeyer, Senior Editor for Mobility Technology at The Drive and co-host of The Autonocast, Merge Now takes you beyond the headlines and deep into the important and thorny issues that arise from the transformation of the mobility sector.